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How Brightspace Assignment Grader works

Brightspace Assignment Grader is a mobile application that you can use to download and evaluate assignment submissions from your Connect unit offering assignments. You can view submissions and add grades and feedback while connected to the Internet or offline. While connected to the Internet, the application automatically synchronizes grades and feedback with your Connect assignments, but you can choose to release the information to learners at a later time. You can apply feedback in a variety of formats including text, audio, or video. You can access rubrics, make inline comments and make annotations directly to submissions to provide contextualized feedback to learners.

Supported devices and platform versions

The following are the minimum requirements to use Brightspace Assignment Grader:

  • Brightspace platform 10.3 or higher
  • For Brightspace Assignment Grader 2.8 (latest version), iPad tablet running iOS 8.1 or later
  • For previous versions of Brightspace Assignment Grader, iPad tablets running iOS 6.0.x, 7.0.x, and 8.0.x

Note: Brightspace Assignment Grader for iOS is optimized for iPad tablets.

Log in using your Connect account

Log in to Brightspace Assignment Grader using the same credentials you use for your Connect account. (Connect appears as D2L Online Courses in Brightspace Assignment Grader).

  1. On the log in screen, tap Log into D2L Online Courses.
  2. Enter the URL of Connect: https://connect.tafeqld.edu.au
  3. Tap Connect.
  4. Enter your Connect account credentials.
  5. Tap Log In.

Change your display settings

  1. On the All Folders page, tap the   Settings icon.
  2. In the Display section, do any of the following:
  • To hide folders that you have already graded, tap the Hide Graded Dropboxes toggle.
  • To hide units whose end dates have passed, tap the Hide Courses Past Their End Date toggle.
  • To hide units that are no longer active, tap the Hide Inactive Courses toggle.

Clear the device cache

  1. On the All Folders page, tap the  Settings icon.
  2. In the Cache section of the menu, tap Clear.
  3. In the Clear Cache dialog, tap Clear.

About synchronizing your Connect account with Brightspace Assignment Grader

When you first log in to Brightspace Assignment Grader, the assignment information in your Connect units automatically synchronizes with the app. When you evaluate a submission by applying feedback or assigning a grade using Brightspace Assignment Grader, the grading status of the submission is set to In Draft. Grades and feedback for submissions with an In Draft status are periodically and automatically synchronized with Connect but are not released to learners. You must explicitly release the evaluation information to learners by tapping Publish All in the submission list view or Publish in the individual submission view. When the grades and feedback you have applied are released to learners, the grading status of the submissions changes to Published.
To refresh the assignment information in Brightspace Assignment Grader, you can pull from top to bottom in any list view. Upon refresh, if there are any submissions with an In Draft grading status, the In Draft grades and feedback are first synchronized with Connect and are maintained within the application. Then, updated assignment information from units in Connect is synchronized back to Brightspace Assignment Grader.
Note Automatic synchronization of In Draft feedback with Connect only occurs when the device is connected to the Internet. If the device is not connected to the Internet, the changes are queued and stored within the application until a connection is made, and at that time an automatic synchronization occurs.

Sort assignments

To change how your assignments display, on the All Folders page, do any of the following:

  • To view assignments by unit, tap the Course tab.
  • To view assignments by end date, tap the End Date tab.
  • To view assignments by the number of ungraded submissions, tap the Ungraded tab.
  • To view assignments that have been downloaded to your device for offline grading, tap the Downloaded tab.

View assignment restrictions

If you have set a Start Date or End Date for assignments in Connect, you can view the dates in Brightspace Assignment Grader.

  1. From the All Folders page, tap the assignment you want to view.
  2. Inside the assignment, tap the   icon.
  3. Tap the Restrictions tab to view the Start Date and End Date.

Sort submissions within an assignment

To change how your assignments display, from any Assignments page, do any of the following:

  • To view submissions based on those that are not graded, tap Ungraded.
  • To view submissions by learner name, tap Name.
  • To view submissions by date submitted, tap Date.
  • To view submissions by grade, tap Grade.

Grade an assignment

Before grading assignments, ensure you synchronize Brightspace Assignment Grader with the assignments in your Connect unit(s) to get the most up-to-date information. To do this, you can pull from top to bottom in any list view.

  1. Under a unit section, tap an assignment.
  2. Inside the folder, all of the learner (or group) submissions display in a list. Each submission displays the date and time it was submitted and the amount of time it was late by, if applicable. To open a submission, tap it.
  3. To view when the assignment was submitted and any notes that accompanied the submission, tap the panel on the left of the screen.
  4. To open the Scoring and Feedback drawer on the right of the screen, tap it. Then do any of the following:
    • To set a final score for the assignment, in the Score section, enter a score.
    • To use an associated rubric, in the Rubrics section, tap the rubric. Select the appropriate performance level for each criterion. If you want the rubric to automatically assign a score in the Total section, tap Save and Record. If you want to enter a total score manually, tap Save.
    • To give written feedback, in the Feedback section, enter your feedback. Format your feedback using the options in the text box.
    • To give audio feedback, in the Record section, tap Audio. Tap the gray circle. Speak your feedback. When you are done recording, tap the gray circle again. Tap Attach Feedback to include as submission feedback.
    • To give video feedback, in the Record section, tap Video. Tap the gray circle. In recording mode, tap the red circle. Present your feedback. To end the recording, tap the red square. Tap Use Video to include as submission feedback.
    • To annotate the file with feedback in context, tap the applicable icon and annotate the desired text or area. To confirm your annotation, tap Done.
  5. To publish the grades and feedback to Connect, do any of the following:
    • To release just that submission's grade and feedback to the learner in Connect, in the individual submission view, tap Publish.
    • To release all In Draft grades and feedback in an assignment to learners in Connect, navigate to the assignment and then tap Publish All.

Annotate an assignment

You can provide feedback directly in submitted assignments using annotation tools.

  1. From the All Folders page, tap the assignment you want to evaluate.
  2. Inside the assignment, tap a submission to open it.
  3. On the Scoring and Feedback drawer, do any of the following:
    • Tap  Draw. Draw with your finger. Tap the color selector to change the color of your pencil, color opacity, and line thickness. Tap Done.
    • Tap  Highlight. Drag your finger over the text you want to highlight. Tap the color selector to change the highlighter color. Tap Done.
    • Tap  Create Note. Tap the document to add a note. Enter your text. Tap Done.
    • Tap   Underline. Drag your finger over the text you want to underline. Tap the color selector to change the underline color. Tap Done.
    • Tap   Strikethrough. Drag your finger over the text you want to strikeout. Tap the color selector to change the strikeout color. Tap Done.

In image documents, the only annotation actions available are Create Note and Draw.

Update or retract published grades and feedback

After you release grades and feedback to learners, you can change the information by doing any of the following:

  • In a submission view with a grading status of Published, tap Retract to remove the grade and feedback from the learner's view in Connect. The status changes to In Draft and the grade and feedback are maintained for the submission but are only visible to you.
  • In a submission view with a grading status of Published, modify the grade or feedback and the status changes to Published! to indicate that there are changes that have not yet been released to learners. Release the changes to the learner by tapping Update.
  • In an assignment with multiple submissions with a status of Published!, tap Publish All to release all of the updates in that folder to learners in Connect.

Download assignments

You can download assignments and the submissions within them directly to your iPad to work offline.
Do one of the following:

  • On the All Folders page, tap the   Download icon beside any assignment.
  • Within a folder, on the navigation bar, tap the  Download icon.

Troubleshooting Brightspace Assignment Grader

I cannot connect my account or sync my assignments
If you receive an error while attempting to connect your Connect account, then your account may not have the proper permissions to access Brightspace Assignment Grader.
I cannot see all of my units or assignments
If you cannot see some of your units or assignments, then they may be hidden by the display settings. Ensure that you have selected the appropriate display settings for the information you want to see. If you have confirmed your display settings but still cannot see all of your units and assignments, contact your regional LMS administrator.
I cannot see which learners have submitted an assignment
If you cannot see which learners have submitted an assignment, but can see how many learners have submitted, verify that your iOS version is 8.1 or higher and that your Brightspace Assignment Grader is version 2.3 or higher.
My files are not marked as read in Connect when I access them first via Brightspace Assignment Grader
If your files are not marked as graded in both the app and in Connect after accessing them first in Brightspace Assignment Grader, verify that your iOS version is 8.1 or higher and that your Brightspace Assignment Grader is version 2.3 or higher.